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5 Things Your Competitors Can Teach You About Media Buying. Media Buying is one of the biggest challenges among online marketing channels. The possibilities are endless – from individual websites and niche blogs, to full-on Ad Networks. With a limited budget, such decisions need to be made with great caution in order to avoid costly mistakes. One method to avoid costly mistakes, media buying strategies of websites similar to your own or website who are in your competitive landscape.

In other words – look into your competitors’ website analytics and analyze their Display Advertising statistics and performance. SimilarWeb PRO helps you access the website analytics data of your competitors; affording you endless possibilities for gaining marketing strategies and more specifically media buying strategies on behalf of your competitors’ advertising efforts. In this post I’ll go over some of the best practices of using SimilarWeb PRO for Media Buying. Tip #1: Find and Choose the Right Competitors to Analyze Tip #3 – Find Relevant Ad Networks Conclusion. Square adds 'market item embedding' to make super-simple mini stores everywhere | VentureBeat | Small Biz | by John Koetsier.

Mobile payments company Square is making selling products online as simple as embedding a YouTube video in your blog. The company unveiled the Square Market — an online storefront for small businesses — two months ago. Now it’s adding “market item embedding” to allow everyone to embed items for sale on their websites and blogs. The result is that a simple link to your handmade beeswax candles becomes a simple buy-now opportunity. Which means that if you can copy and paste, you can sell online. Companies like Shopify have made building and launching online stores super easy. But for some small businesses, the hassle of building and managing an entire e-commerce initiative might be too much, when all they want to do is sell five items. To start embedding products, of course, you’ll need a Square Market account, and you’ll have to have set up at least some of your products for sale there.

Helpfully, Square Market will show you a preview of what your item will look like on the site. Mindfulness Meditation™ - App for iPhone, Android, Mac, and PC. Mental Workout® - Official store. For Ailing Vets In Rural Areas, Tele-Medicine Can Be The Cure. Howard Lincoln, 82, lives in the village of White Mountain in Alaska. Lincoln served with the U.S. Army in Korea, where he was seriously wounded in combat and received a Purple Heart. He recently suffered two minor strokes and now "visits" a doctor over a video link, part of a growing trend in the VA. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption toggle caption David Gilkey/NPR Howard Lincoln, 82, lives in the village of White Mountain in Alaska. David Gilkey/NPR Howard Lincoln of White Mountain, Alaska, doesn't always hear it when people knock on his door. "We heard it whistling, but I was the third one in line running toward the bunker," he recalls.

Wounds to his face, arm and hip laid him up in a Tokyo hospital for quite a while. The nearest VA hospital was hundreds of miles — and at least two plane rides — away. Octavia Wilson looks through supplies in a telemedicine cart in Wales, Alaska. Octavia Wilson looks through supplies in a telemedicine cart in Wales, Alaska. Saving Time, Money And Travel. Online CE - Continuing Education Health Training Courses and Seminars Florida.